Definition of "tories" [tories]

• Plural form of tory. (proper-noun)

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• "So ... councillor for the next six weeks leaves lib dems to join tories, but he is not standing again in May."
• "It begins with the fact that those who opposed the radical whig ideology of the Declaration of Independence were termed 'tories' - and they were a very significant number of colonists, so much so that historians are now describing the Revolution as 'the first American civil war'."
• "i see a green win tories down 6% in council elections"